It's set between Enterprise and The Original Series in the prime timeline... and honestly we don't know much more than that. It seems that the Klingons will feature heavily, but that's a radically different aesthetic from what we're used to. Design-wise it clearly takes something from the recent films - let's just hope the engine room isn't a bloody brewery.

It starts this autumn, and it's being shown on Netflix in the UK and just about everywhere else while the poor Yanks need to pay for CBS' own streaming service. This means it'll probably be cancelled following the planned 15 episode first season because no Americans will be watching it.

I really liked Enterprise, I thought the exploration of humanity finding its place in the cosmos was compelling. It was cancelled just as it was finding its stride, and I'm hoping Discovery picks up the mantle rather than just being a TV version of the recent films.

I doubt anyone will ever touch the Xindi again other than mentioning them in passing, if that's what you're referring to.

I'm happy with it being another prequel series, personally. If it's only ten years before TOS, then it's basically the same period as Kirk's first 5-year mission, and it ought to be able to explore stuff that TOS realistically couldn't because it was the sixties and they had no production budget. I just hope it's more thoughtful than the JJ-verse stuff.